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Delay update ... "Extraordinary and excessive" delay - by the litigants ... Contest on costs ... Getting to grips with Qld industrial law takes time ... What is a "worker"? ... What is an "injury"? ... Justice Jenni frigging around ... Slow grind for earnest Circuiteer ... From judges' associate Ginger Snatch ... Read more >>

 

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A biopsy on bias ... Darryl Rangiah and Oscar Wilde … A unity ticket … White flags at Ultimo … The Hyphen … BBC also on the ropes … Cease – FIRE … Why is Murdoch’s bias always wrong about everything? ... Read on >> 

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      Another report from Brian Leveson ... The way judge and jury trials are organised is unsustainable ... If allowed to continue criminal justice in Britain will collapse
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      US Supremo Justice Jackson lays into the court's MAGA decisions and gets a swipe from Trump judge Barrett
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      Israel's war in Gaza has undermined freedom of speech and the international rule of law
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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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The Segal Report on combatting antisemitism ... Sweeping recommendations ... In full >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

"If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it's the Trump family."

Eric Trump, reported in the Financial Times, June 27, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 

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Zeitgeist litigation ... Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference ... Read more >> 

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The Circumlocution Office ... "Reform" of legal fees - four centuries of chicanery ... Tulkinghorn awards prizes for "reforms" that increase legal costs ... Jacking-up revenue by replacing "necessary or proper" costs with "fair and reasonable" costs ... From Justinian's Archive, January 17, 2012 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Mar152024

Slumbering snails

• DateFriday, March 15, 2024

Judges and their delays ... Agonising cogitations ... Trials derailed ... Start again ... Dreamers awake ... Award time for the coveted Golden Snail 

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Wednesday
Mar132024

Solicitor's swan song sounds in contempt

• DateWednesday, March 13, 2024

Trading without a ticket ... Manager appointed ... Obstruction and hinderance ... "Medical issues" ... Contempt ... One month's prison - suspended ... Not sorry ... Anthony-James Kanaan reporting 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

University turns tail on Drumgold

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

University of Canberra wilts in the heat ... Drumgold's academic appointment cancelled ... Unrelenting and biased media attacks ... Lily-livered university administrators ... From the newsletter 500 Words, or thereabouts 

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Tuesday
Mar122024

Yarraside - fresh agitation

• DateTuesday, March 12, 2024

Skirmish over how to spend $600,000 of barristers' money sitting in Victorian CJ's piggybank ... Tightwads are opposed to the Owen Dixon Memorial Childcare Centre ... Alarming problem if nippers are located where criminals are visiting their briefs ... Woke Wars ... Peach Melba reports 

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Monday
Mar112024

Sofronoff scuppered

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

A judicial review of a board of inquiry into the rape case against Bruce Lehrmann has exposed a newspaper columnist’s efforts to cultivate a relationship with the inquiry’s head ... Apprehended bias sinks findings against Shane Drumgold ... From The Saturday Paper ... By Richard Ackland 

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Monday
Mar112024

Dangerous concoctions

• DateMonday, March 11, 2024

Fabricated cases cited to show instances where MinterEllison lawyers had been restrained from appearing ... AI possibly responsible ... Litigant fails in bid to block Minters and counsel from acting in long-running employment law battle ... Embellished misconduct claims ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Tuesday
Mar052024

Latest cancellations

• DateTuesday, March 5, 2024

Barrister skewered for taking a pro-Palestinian stand ... Referred to OLSC for "antisemitism" ... Lobby calls for deticketing ... The free speech brigade unhappy with free speech ... Sudden death syndrome ... Procrustes files 

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Tuesday
Mar052024

It was a dark and stormy night in the Shire

• DateTuesday, March 5, 2024

Throttling ... Cronulla love nest spirals out of control ... Qantas hostie overturns District Court findings on red neck injuries inflicted by a boozed solicitor ... Show cause ... NSW Court of Appeal ... Ginger Snatch reports  

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Wednesday
Feb282024

Danger ahead - falling rocks

• DateWednesday, February 28, 2024

Voting in America ... Gerrymanders and voter suppression give Republicans a whopping advantage ... The 14th amendment and its possibilities ... The post-Civil War reconstruction amendments ... Trump and the suspension of the Constitution ... Our Man in Washington Roger Fitch explains 

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